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Riverview, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33578. It stands on Rice Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverview quadrangle. 107,396 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Riverview within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riverview, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Riverview, surveyed 1921

Population over time

2 figures

Riverview grew from 71,050 to 107,396 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201071,050
2020107,396+36,346 (+51%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,895 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 25 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Arson/incendiarism25
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1998Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1992Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePANTHER TRACE (29)
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Riverview: 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverview in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 11 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1996HailRiverview$75,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRiverview$30,000There were several trees uprooted, a lanai and a fence had damage, and several roofs had minor damage in a mobile home community south of Riverview.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRiverview$20,000A Tampa Electric Power Company representative reported that thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees and several large limbs from Riverview north to Seffner.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRiverview$10,000An off-duty NWS employee reported a 30 to 40 foot oak tree that had fallen onto a car in the driveway.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindRiverview$10,000The wind caused minor house damage and blew down 120 feet of fence near the corner of Balm Riverview and Rhodine. A tree fell on a mobile home in Riverview and multiple trees were down along State Highway 301.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRiverview$10,000An off-duty NWS meteorologist reported that thunderstorm winds blew down the gables of a home under construction on Freeport Road in Riverview. Numerous trees and large limbs were also downed by thunderstorm winds along the 5000 block of 86th Street in the Progress Village subdivision in Riverview.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Riverview$5,000A tornado briefly touched down in a few locations along the path causing trees to be snapped or uprooted along Duncan Road, Bloomingdale Avenue, and Craft Road. Winds were estimated at 75mph.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRiverview$5,000A 60 to 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust was reported in Riverview by an off-duty NWS meteorologist. The thunderstorm winds downed several large tree branches which damaged a lanai in the McMullen Loop area of Riverview.
July 1999LightningRiverview$2,000Bay News Nine Cable of Tampa reported that lightning struck and burned to the ground a shed on the 8200 block of Alafia Ridge Loop in Riverview.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRiverview$2,000Estimated wind gusts of up to 50 mph flipped a carport onto a house in Progress Village in Riverview.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindRiverview$1,000Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office relayed a report of a downed tree on Symmes Road near U.S. 301. Time was estimated off of radar.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindRiverview$1,000The media reported that thunderstorm winds uprooted several young trees in Riverview.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRiverview-A home weather station owned by a NWS employee recorded a wind gust of 59 mph near Gibsonton.
June 2009HailRiverview-An NWS Employee reported penny sized hail in Riverview.
June 2004HailRiverview-Occurred on Interstate 75 at Exit 250 - Gibsonton Road.
June 2001HailRiverview-Dime sized hail was reported by WFTS-TV (ABC) of Tampa in Riverview, Florida.
June 2000HailRiverview-An off-duty NWS meteorologist reported dime sized hail in Riverview.
June 2000FloodRiverview-Three to four inches of rain in less than an hour caused localized flooding of street intersections over Riverview, Bloomingdale, Gibsonton and Lithia over southeast Hillsborough county.
May 1999HailRiverview-Quarter sized hail was reported by the battalion chief of the Riverview fire department at the intersection of U.S. Highway 301 and Big Bend Road.
May 1999HailRiverview-Dime sized hail was reported by an off-duty NWS meteorologist in Riverview.
March 2003HailRiverview-no account filed
May 2002Dust DevilRiverview-no account filed
May 1996HailRiverview-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindRiverview-no account filed
March 1996HailRiverview-no account filed
March 1996HailRiverview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
East Tampa2.8 miles18
Gibsonton3.1 miles18
Progress Village3.1 miles16
Remlap3.7 miles18
Adamsville4.7 miles18
Bloomingdale4.9 miles13
Clair-Mel City5.0 miles16
Brandon5.4 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RiverviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1828539The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 289753. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.